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ActiveRecord association extensions and method_missing
The semantics of method calls in Ruby are simple: Call the named method; or If no method exists, call #method_missing() instead. Normally #send() obeys these rules as well. ActiveRecord association proxies mangle #send()‘s semantics, however, violating the POLS and potentially … Continue reading
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Tagged active, associations, extensions, method_missing, rails, ruby, send
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Sustainable Development in Ruby, Part 2: Method Injection
Sometimes you have a need for an object method which the class author did not foresee. For instance, in our “previous installment”:http://avdi.org/devblog/2008/03/27/sustainable-development-in-ruby-part-1-good-old-fashioned-inheritance/, we used the following code to accumulate packets until an ending packet was found: class BufferedConnection < FMTP::Connection … Continue reading
